Buddhist Society of Western Australia

In the final part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses Right Liberation:

• Liberation from what exactly?
  o Defilements
  o Suffering = the five aggregates = existence
  o Liberation in both respects
• Liberation and Nibbāna (SN 23.1, SN 1.2)
• The meaning of “Nibbāna”
• The two types of Nibbāna (Iti 44, Thag 15.2)
  o Nibbāna at enlightenment
  o Nibbāna at passing away
• Nature of Nibbāna
  o Awakening vs. enlightenment
  o Only potsherds being left (SN 12.51)
  o All feelings become cool at the end of life (MN 140)
• Anattā: no entity comes to an end, only suffering (MN 72, SN 22.85)
• Conceit and enlightenment (MN 140, Ud 1.10)
• To help others, aim for enlightenment yourself; get out of the mud (MN 8)
• Some say Nibbāna is cessation, others that it is a kind of eternalism; so how do we choose?
  o We need to zoom out and take a bird’s eye view
  o The safe bet: let go of as much as possible. “Nothing is worth holding on to” (MN 37)
  o The view of cessation of existence is closer to non-clinging (MN 60)
• What’s the purpose of extinguishment? (SN 23.1)

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In the 3rd part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses the myths and misconceptions:

• Myth 1: Nibbāna is a kind of consciousness
• Myth 2: Nibbāna is kind of mind
• Myth 3: Extinguished fires keep existing
• Myth 4: The Buddha/arahants do not suffer
• Myth 5: Cessation is just annihilation
• Myth 6: Only the clinging aggregates are suffering, not the pure aggregates
• Myth 7: Nibbāna is “the unborn” thing, the “deathless” thing
• Myth 8: Nibbāna is a state or sphere.

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In the 3rd part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses the myths and misconceptions:

• Myth 1: Nibbāna is a kind of consciousness
• Myth 2: Nibbāna is kind of mind
• Myth 3: Extinguished fires keep existing
• Myth 4: The Buddha/arahants do not suffer
• Myth 5: Cessation is just annihilation
• Myth 6: Only the clinging aggregates are suffering, not the pure aggregates
• Myth 7: Nibbāna is “the unborn” thing, the “deathless” thing
• Myth 8: Nibbāna is a state or sphere.

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation on impermanence and talks about how we can see impermanence when our mind is peaceful.

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Ajahn Sujato talks about the Four Elements (earth, fire, water and air) and how it relates to impermanence and interconnectedness.

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation session for about 30 minutes.

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This talk is republished with permission by Metta Centre, teaching retrieved from http://Dhamma Talks – Metta Centre.

We decided that everyone should choose their own life path, but it seems that we forgot to talk about what makes a good life. Should you follow your bliss if your bliss is doing bad things? Is purpose innate or do we have a choice? How can we find purpose if life seems determined to strip it away?

0:00 - Metta meditation
22:12 - Finding purpose
32:33 - Being a monastic
33:55 - See the bigger picture
34:53 - Impermanence & choices

37:47- Q & A
38:30 - Choices & conditioning
41:59 - Regretting ordination
47:09 - Hard finding purpose
53:50 - Q: Challenges finding one's purpose
54:20 - Am I doing enough?
57:39 - What we want to become
58:17 - Our impact
1:01:13 - The present
1:02:03 - Perhaps the only purpose is waking up?
1:03:34 - Do choices end?
1:06:45 - Traditional values & expectations
1:14:45 - How to find purpose in the mundane?
1:16:40 - Pre-announcement: Buddhist Professional Network
1:17:43 - Too busy to consider purpose..
1:20:56 - Guiding principles
1:22:51 - Noble Eightfold Path
1:26:28 - Hard rejecting dreaded freelance jobs
1:28:20 - Closing
1:29:39 - Dedication of merits

About the presenter: Bhante Sujato is an Australian Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in a monastery in Chiang Mai in Thailand during the 1990s. Besides spending 3 years in the Bodhinyana monastery with Ajahn Brahm, he also spent several years in remote hermitages and caves in Thailand in Malaysia. He helped establish the Santi Forest Monastery in Bundanoon, where he was the abbot for many years. As a scholar of early Buddhism, Venerable Sujato has authored several books and essays, and is the founder of SuttaCentral.net, an impressive online collection of early Buddhist texts, attributed to the teachings of the Buddha or his earliest disciples, with translations and commentary available on the site. Venerable Sujato has taught Buddhism and meditation in Australia and internationally such as in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, America, Germany, Norway, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan and many others. Venerable Sujato is now residing at Lokanta Vihara (the Monastery at the End of the World) in Sydney, Australia.

Facilitator: Tina Ng

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation session for approximately 30 minutes. 

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation session for approximately 30 minutes. 

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation session for approximately 30 minutes. 

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation session for approximately 30 minutes. 

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To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page:  https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.               

Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation session for approximately 30 minutes. 

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To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page:  https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.                                 

Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation session for approximately 30 minutes. 

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To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page:  https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.                                 

Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Ajahn Sujato, 'does a spin' on Buddhism. At the time of this talk (8th December 2008) Ajahn Sujato was the abbot of Santi Monastery.

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Ajahn Sujato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia. 

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